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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, Art, Before

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln

Thoughts, Show, Books

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Memory, Simply

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Creative, Happens, Cause

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs

Understand, Study, Until

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah

True, Stay, Style

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.
Charlie Sheen

Love, Brain, Why

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley

Religion, Mind, Powerful

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
Abdul Kalam

Science, Two, Start

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire

Nothing, Another, Writers

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

Life, Work, May

Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Ingrid Bergman

Yourself, Worships

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken

Society, Thought, Made

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes

Courage, Human, Earth

I'm the original take-orders girl.
Judy Garland

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Orison Swett Marden

Power, Alone, Strong

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx

Technology, Together, Whole

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas Paine

Religion, Law, Religions

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Age, Time, Great

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith

Money, Wealth, Gold

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl Marx

Science, Far, Value

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson

Good, Both, Manuscript

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren G. Bennis

Teacher, Found, Mediocrity

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
Bernard Meltzer

God, Yourself, Made

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson

Good, Design, Person

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
Roald Dahl

Life, Simple, Thinking

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke

Power, Justice, Human

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Fran Lebowitz

Thought, Before, Both

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May

Yourself, Ideas, Listen

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Honore de Balzac

Woman, Passion, Resistance

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